Professor Konrad Rieck of Technische Universität Braunschweig has released a list of Influential Security Papers, and research ("Dynamic Provable Data Possession") from Brown CS PhD alums C. Christopher Erway (now Chief Architect of the SolarWinds Monitoring Cloud), Alptekin Küpçü (now Assistant Professor at Koç University), and Charalampos Papamanthou (now Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, College Park) and Plastech Professor of Computer Science Roberto Tamassia has earned the #4 spot for papers published in 2009. It's also the 50th most cited paper since 1981.

The list ranks papers published at the four top-tier security conferences, and their work, originally presented at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) has received 907 cites at Google Scholar, putting it 476% above that year's average. The research was completed while Christopher, Alptekin, and Charalampos were PhD students at Brown CS, and it resulted in an issued patent.